Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-29
DAKOTA ITEMS
There are 1850 schools in Dakota.

There are $3.50 schools IN Dakota.
The rainfall at Yankton Wednesday
was g.14 inches.
The Manitoba does good freight
business at Watertown.
Several buildings at Ordway will be
removed to Aberdeen.
The Duluth road has secured depot
grounds at Sioux Falls.
Wheat is coming into Clark at the
rate of 1900 bushels per day.
A movement is on foot to establish a
carriage factory in Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls is becoming quite rem
devious for standardized horses.
Prairie fires have recently done con-
siderable damage south of Aberdeen.
John b. Finch is drawing large audi
ences wherever he speaks in the terri
tory
Commissioner Mcclure now estimates
the wheat crop of Dakota at 6O,OOO,OOO
bushels.
PIP. Wall, formerly of the Water
town Journal, has put in a job office at
Mitchell.
The Hanson county prohibition un-
ion is running quite but thorough
campaign.
Belle Boyd, the rebel spy, lectured
at the opera-house at Sioux Falls Fri
day night.
The Alexandria Herald has COM
menced action against its delinquent
subscribers.
A Presbyterian church, a Methodist
church and several store buildings are
being built at Britton.
The Manitoba is now surveying %
line from Pierre to the Black Hills, fol-
lowing the Bad river route.
Five prisoners were carried this week
from the Lincoln county Jail to the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
Parties from Muscatlne. TO-, are Of
fering 40 cents per bushel for potatoes
at Mortified, Sphinx county.
AT the sale of school bonds of the
town of Amour, Douglas county, they
were sold at per cent premium.
County Auditor Bingham, of Clark
county, has gone to England to trans
act business and will return in 1888.
The Skinner Manufacturing company
of Emmettsburg, has made Sioux Falls
a proposition to remove to that place.
There are now siXty-four organized
schools in Clark county, with 1856
school children between the ages of Z
and 20,
A new paper has been started at Mil
bank called the Graphic. 1t declares
that it will bring order out of chaos in
that town.
The Fargo Argus thinks that in the
temperance local option fight up there
it is good time to carry water on
both shoulders"
The new grist mill at Frankfort will
commence grinding about December l..
! 1t will be a roller mill of seventy-tive
barrels per day capacity.
Jamestown's city council will be en-
Joined from proceeding to light the city
by electricity, rs the municipal indebt-
edness is already very heavy.
Lots are now for sale in the new
towns between Bristol and Madison on
the Dakota and Great Southern line of
the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul.
G. II. Davis, school teacher near
| Valley City, was handling gun Mon
day which accidentally discharged, kill
ing 9-year-old son of Nicholas John
| son.
Prof. Updyke, of the agricultural col
lege, will probably become the pastor
of the Congregational church at Brook
ings and continue his work at the col
| lege also.
| Delegate Clifford in recent inier-
view said he did not have much conf
dence that any action would be taken
this winter by congress upon Dakota
| statehood.
Commissioner of Immigration Nc
| Clure has secured an Office in the Ba-
kota Bell building at Sioux Falls, and
is at work preparing matter for his
book on Dakota.
| One hundred and fifty excursionists
from Wisconsin and Illinois arrived at
Watertown Wednesday. They were in
pursuit of homes. A portion of the
party went on to Faulkton.
| The new court house at Aberdeen to
be donated to Brown county is 4S by so
feet on the ground, with a cupcla forty
| feet high from the cornice, 1t will be
ready for occupancy November Is.
A fellow on the streets of Aberdeen,
who was playing the charity dodge
was committed to Jail, lie feigned a
| broken arm, but an examination by a
physician proved the member to be
sound.
Another mountain of tin ore has been
discovered six miles in a northerly di-
rection from Custer City, which is said
to be the most important, inasmuch as
it is by far the most extensive and
massive body of tin ore yet discovered
in the Hills.
Glenn. the Hutchinson county mons
ter, is playing the insanity dodge. In
Jail he prays and sings gospel songs the
greater part of the time, and tries to
convert his fellow prisoners. He has
succeeded in getting colored man to
pray and sing gospel songs with him.
Yankton Press and Dakotaian: A
rumor permeated the atmosphere last
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